Anterior Ocular Imaging

Anterior ocular imaging is a critical aspect of comprehensive eye care, providing essential insights into your eye health and facilitating precise contact lens fittings. At Innovative Eye Care, we prioritize advanced anterior imaging techniques at our Adelaide and Henley Beach locations, ensuring the highest quality care for our patients.

Our cutting-edge equipment, including the Pentacam AXL Wave, Heidelberg Spectralis, and standard slit lamp biomicroscopes with HD Canon photography, enables us to offer top-notch anterior ocular imaging services.

The Importance of Anterior Imaging in Eye Care

Anterior imaging serves multiple crucial purposes in eye care. It allows us to document essential information about your eye health and offers insights into the shape of your eye, which is invaluable for contact lens fittings. Additionally, it helps us identify and monitor potential eye conditions or abnormalities, such as pterygium, cataracts and keratoconus. These images are instrumental in tracking your eye's healing progress, especially following conditions like corneal infection.

During your visit, our experienced optometrists will use these images to provide detailed explanations about your eye health and any ocular conditions you may have. As they say, "a picture tells a thousand words."

Advanced Imaging Equipment

Our state-of-the-art imaging equipment includes:

Pentacam AXL Wave

The Pentacam AXL Wave uses Scheimpflug imaging to scan the tissues at the front of the eye. It maps the front and back corneal surfaces, as well as its thickness and volume. It also captures information about the anterior chamber (in particular its conformation and volume), and the anterior lens topography and density. Its ability to scan the anterior eye in extreme detail makes it ideal for use in managing complex disease and to design various custom-made contact lenses including orthokeratology, bespoke RGP and scleral lenses.

Heidelberg Spectralis

The Heidelberg Spectralisis a state-of-the-art OCT machine that takes highly detailed cross-sectional scans of your eye. Typically used for imaging the optic nerve and retina at the back of the eye, the same principles can be applied to the cornea, sclera, iris and lens at the front of the eye. Its especially useful when assessing the fit of rigid contact lenses (namely scleral lenses) where the ‘landing zones’, or areas where the lens makes contact with the eye, can be manipulated for better comfort.

Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy

The slit-lamp biomicroscope is an indispensable tool in optometric practice, offering a magnified and well-illuminated view of the eye's anterior structures. It enables optometrists to conduct detailed examinations of the cornea, iris, lens, and anterior chamber, aiding in the diagnosis of various eye conditions such as corneal ulcers, cataracts, and glaucoma. Additionally, it plays a crucial role in contact lens fittings, ensuring comfort and proper alignment. This instrument is vital for assessing overall eye health, tracking disease progression, and educating patients through visual demonstrations.

Medmont E300

All of our consulting rooms at both practices are equipped with Medmont E300 corneal topographers, which give accurate mathematical information about the shape of the front of your eye, a feature that’s especially important for ortho-K and rigid lens wearers and in diagnosing refractive conditions like astigmatism, myopia and hyperopia.